Above the mage!

Chapter 432 Crystallization
The morning sun pierces the mist, casting amber spots on the cobblestone roads of Phoenix

Dozens of three-story stone buildings are arranged in an orderly manner, shining coldly in the morning light.

There is excellent distance between buildings, and there are nearly ten huge squares (playgrounds).

This is Phoenix No. 1 Middle School, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education.

In the classroom, children of all ages are running around.

They wore roughly made animal skins, the boys wore bells made of deer antlers around their waists, and the girls wore animal hair turbans.

Despite the cold weather, the children were full of energy, jumping up and down between the tables and shouting.

They are a group of very ill-educated children.

In the last row of the classroom, Anna, who was quietly reading the book in her hand, seemed out of place.

In the past, Anna was always seen as a naughty child, and she was definitely no match for her older sister Elsa.

But compared with these children, Anna realized that she was so well-behaved.

Of course, this is not surprising.

After all, these children are all from common people and have never received any orthodox education.

The primitive tribal lifestyle has shaped their rough and casual personalities.

There were also a few children who would glance at Anna from time to time with curiosity and eagerness.

They wanted to talk to Anna.

But Anna's beautiful appearance inherited from the royal bloodline and her temperament, which was completely different from theirs, developed from growing up in a royal environment, made them feel ashamed of themselves.

In addition, they all knew that Anna's sister was the "Office Director" and one of the most powerful people in Phoenix.

More importantly, during break time, like now, Anna would always be reading a book. They would occasionally glance at the contents of the book but could not understand anything at all.

All these factors combined made them very awed by Anna and they didn't dare to get close to her.

But the children's instinctive yearning and pursuit for beautiful things made them subconsciously approach Anna, trying to find a reason to talk to her.

Contradictory and reasonable.

"Dang——dang——dang——"

At this moment, a clear bell suddenly rang from outside the classroom and spread throughout the school.

It was clearly just an ordinary bell, but it seemed like a magical object that silenced the school that had been noisy just a second ago.

Those children who were running around and venting their abundant energy seemed to have heard some alarm and ran to their seats as fast as they could.

In less than ten seconds, everyone was seated in their seats, standing straight with their hands neatly folded on the table.

If others saw this change, they would certainly be surprised.

Anna was very calm.

Because such scenes happen nearly ten times every day, she has long been accustomed to it.

About half a minute later, a young man pushed open the heavy door curtain made of animal skin and wool and walked in.

He first looked around the classroom to make sure no students were absent, then he cleared his throat and said softly, "Good morning, students."

"Good morning, Mr. Sayid!" All the students in the classroom, including Anna, shouted in unison.

"Today's class is still a film class." Sayid smiled slightly, then took out a box from his arms.

When the box was opened, there was an oval stone about the size of a palm.

Seid held the image stone in his hand and input magic power into it in reverse.

The next moment, the silver veins flowing in the image stone suddenly shone brightly, emitting a dazzling light, just like the scene seen after opening a treasure chest in a novel.

These lights intertwined and soon gathered into vivid patterns in the air.

First, a blackboard came into view, on which was written in neat Ace script: "Introduction to Ace Language - Chapter 2: Acewen's Writing"

Then, a middle-aged man in an old robe appeared on the screen and began to talk to everyone.

"Dear students, I am your teacher Jonathan. Today, everyone will continue to follow me to learn the calligraphy of the second chapter of Esven. Let me review the key points of the last lesson. I wonder if the students have reviewed it in time after class."

The children, on the other hand, began to listen carefully and take notes seriously. There was no trace of the dull look they had during the break.

Sayid watched this scene silently, feeling quite emotional.

Teacher Jonathan is becoming more and more proficient. He still remembers that when he first started recording the video class, Teacher Jonathan was so uncomfortable that he could hardly speak.

About an hour later, the clanging bell sounds rang again.

The light and shadow floating at the front of the classroom also disappeared.

Sayid collected the photo stone and solemnly placed it in the box. Then he said to all the children in the classroom, "Students, school is over. Go home and have lunch."

"Thank you, Mr. Sayid," the children said politely.

Sayid nodded and slowly left the classroom.

The next moment, the classroom became noisy again, and everyone called their friends and ran out happily.

Anna slowly packed up her notes and the book that other students thought was incomprehensible, and put them in a small bag her sister had given her. Then she stood up and walked out.

"Anna." She had only taken a few steps when a timid voice suddenly came from behind her.

Anna looked back and saw a girl who was a little thin compared to people from the Northern Territory looking at her cautiously.

Anna thought about it and remembered the other person's name. It seemed to be Pearl. She was not a member of the Zhenbing tribe, but an orphan taken in by the Snowfield Guardian who was expelled by her brother.

"Is there something?" Anna hesitated and spoke with some stagnation.

She can't speak Ace language well, which is the main reason why she is often silent.

Please, those classmates all spoke so fast and incoherently, and with Anna's poor Ace language, there was no way she could understand what they were saying, let alone participate in it.

"I heard from the instructor that you are very good at speaking the common language. There are some things I don't understand. Can I ask you?"

Pearl deliberately slowed down her speech, as if she was afraid that Anna would be dissatisfied, and quickly added: "Mr. Jonathan who teaches Ace is my teacher. If you have any questions about Ace, you can ask me."

After she finished speaking, Pearl looked at Anna nervously, as if she was waiting for trial.

"Deal." Anna smiled.

Anna, who had just returned home with the joy of making new friends, saw God and his sister Elsa standing at the door.

"Brother!" She immediately cried out in joy and trotted to Gao De.

Gao De picked her up.

"My sister said you came back a few days ago." Anna expressed her dissatisfaction.

"I have a lot of things to do and I really can't spare the time," Gao De explained. Facing Anna's "dissatisfaction", he quickly changed the subject: "I came here to check your learning results first."

Before leaving the North for the last time, he took time out to compile a new version of Standard Runes and gave it to Anna.

Anna is currently the only person besides him who has been exposed to Hoshi's six laws.

The key to Ho's six laws is understanding.

Anna had not received any relevant education before, so her thoughts were not yet formed, and she was well receptive to this law that subverted tradition.

Second, her talent was already focused on this, so it was almost no problem for her to understand it.

However, the essence of the new rune science is just to simplify many of the rune-related workloads through calculations, which is equivalent to updating the tools.

But rune knowledge is still the foundation and is indispensable, equivalent to raw materials.

If you want to produce a finished product (rune array), no matter how advanced the tools are, how can you do it without raw materials?

Anna's talent in calculation has been verified, but her talent in runes is still unknown. This will take time to verify.

So Gao De made an appointment with Anna that he would check her homework when he came back next time.

He certainly didn't forget.

Anna raised her eyebrows and hummed.

She even brings her textbooks to school, which shows how hard she works. Naturally, she is not afraid of the Gaode assessment.

"It seems that you are very confident." Gao De said with a smile.

"Yes!" Anna crossed her arms and said affirmatively: "Brother, these six laws of Hexi are so useful, they are ten thousand times more useful than the rune adjustment methods that my previous teachers talked about!
Fortunately, I was not a mage at the time, so I could not continue to learn runes. Otherwise, I would have wasted so much time on these rigid things like my sister, and in the end, I would have learned nothing."

Hearing this, Gao De silently glanced at Aisha beside him.

It seems that this seemingly capable office director has a talent for runes that is completely opposite to her sister's.
However, seeing this, Gaode was almost certain in his heart that Anna must have a good talent in runes, otherwise she would not be so confident.

"Stop, stop, stop. Don't be so proud of yourself. You will be embarrassed if you fail the test." Elsa quickly interrupted Anna's "exposure".

Anna, who had been chattering, suddenly became quiet.

It can be seen that she is still in awe of Elsa.

An hour later.

Facing Anna's big eyes and Elsa's attention, God nodded silently.

"Passed the assessment."

He anticipated that Anna's talent in runes was not bad, but he never imagined that it would be so good that it could be compared with her talent in calculation.

A double genius.

This made Gode's idea more firm, and there was light in his eyes when he looked at Anna.

But considering that Elsa was beside him, God chose to restrain his praise.

Gao De shook the Green Vine Spirit Dew in his hand.

Ding dong ding dong.

A crisp ding-dong sound was heard, and the translucent green liquid with golden spots of light rose and fell.

"Lady Flora, what's going on?"

"We still need six kinds of medicinal properties." Flora frowned.

"Lady Flora, don't worry. Just take your time to look for it. There's no rush. Even if you can't find it in the end, it doesn't matter. Just treat it as an attempt." Goder comforted.

"~" Flora still frowned.

The little guy has always been very strong-willed.

"I am going to drink the Green Ivy Spirit Dew. Lady Flora should have remembered all its medicinal properties, right?" Gao De asked again.

"Of course, Lady Flora is very smart!"

"Of course I know this. After all, apart from Lady Flora, who else has the ability to deduce the formula directly based on the potion?" Goder said with emotion.

At the Ocean Festival, after the potion master's performance of mixing potions, Flora showed how her talent in mixing potions was impressive:

She can identify all the medicinal properties in the raw materials, and can accurately sense the state of the potion when it is being prepared, and know how much dose of raw materials needs to be added to supplement it to become the final product.

At that time, Gode was thinking that according to this principle, if he gave Flora a bottle of potion, she should be able to determine what kind of raw materials were needed to prepare this potion and how much dosage was needed.

That is, reverse the formula based on the finished product.

It was just speculation at the time.

After returning to the North, Goder used the Green Vine Spirit Dew as a test product and asked Flora to try to reverse engineer the formula.

Turns out, she can actually do it.

With her natural ability, Flora can accurately identify at a glance what medicinal properties the Qingteng Linglu is composed of and what proportion each of them occupies.

Therefore, you just need to find all the raw materials with these medicinal properties, which is equivalent to coming up with the magic potion formula of Qingteng Linglu.

But there are limitations.

All she gave was the medicinal properties, not the exact names of the raw materials.

And being able to identify the medicinal properties of raw materials is her innate ability, which no one else can replicate.

Therefore, if you want to find raw materials with these medicinal properties, Flora can only look at them slowly.

There is no doubt that the efficiency is extremely low.

According to Flora, the Green Vine Spirit Dew is composed of nine medicinal properties.

Up to now, only three of them have been found to have medicinal properties, which are contained in ice moss, edelweiss root and ice swamp worms.

We need to build a sample library of raw materials to make it easier for Flora to decipher the potion formula in the future, Goder said secretly.

Of course, this is a matter for the future and is not a high priority for now.

After seeing Flora off, Gode also left the room and headed for the core spiritual place of Phoenix, where the Ice Jade Wutong was located.

There are many things to do this time when he returns to the North, but the most important thing is his ring upgrade.

The concentration of magic power in the core spiritual land is also slowly increasing as the Ice Jade Wutong upgrades and gathers magic power.

Although there is still a long way to go before advancing to the sixth-level spiritual land, the concentration of magic power has increased significantly compared to before.

If there is a magic meter, the magic concentration here must be over 25000.

This concentration of magic power is more than enough to achieve advancement to the second ring.

Sunaifah, carrying the [Blizzard], has been waiting here for a long time.

"Thank you for your help." Gaode nodded slightly to Sunaifa.

"You are too polite, my king."

She wants to "protect" Gao De to prevent him from encountering external interference during his promotion process.

When a first-ring mage is promoted, he will be protected by a fourth-ring mage.

Even the children of nobles rarely enjoy such treatment.

With the help of top-level level-upgrade potions, Gaode has great confidence in his level-upgrade ability.

Sitting cross-legged under the Ice Jade Wutong tree, he reviewed the key points of the ring upgrade in his mind. After confirming that there was nothing missed, he took out the Green Vine Spirit Dew.

Without any hesitation, he finished it in one gulp.

The cool medicinal liquid with a sweet plant flavor enters the body and falls into the mana pool in the lower abdomen.

Gulu gulu!

The powerful yet gentle medicinal power quickly spread out, like adding fuel to the fire, causing the 60 drops of liquid mana in the mana pool to boil.

Just like a thousand ripples forming in a clear lake when a stone is thrown into it, the gurgling sound mixed with the crisp sound of bubbles bursting hurt Gao De's eardrums.

And the moment the medicinal power reached the magic power pool, the "Qingmu Changsheng Sutra" that he had already memorized by heart began to work.

The liquid magic power cultivated from the "Green Wood Eternal Life Sutra" is bright green in color, which is somewhat similar to the Green Vine Spirit Dew.

In fact, they are more than similar; they are of the same genus.

Under this connection, Gaode's absorption of the Green Vine Spirit Dew was surprisingly good.

The medicinal power continued to merge into his liquid magic power, causing the original green color to change into a deeper emerald.

The first step to becoming a second-ring mage, the crystallization of mana begins!
(End of this chapter)